Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 3. The self-luminous Self: waking, dream, and the light of man
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
The light of the sun
"Yajnavalkya, what is the light of this person?" "The light of the sun, O emperor," he said. "For it is by the light of the sun that he sits, goes about, does his work, and returns." "It is just so, Yajnavalkya."
Janaka asks: by what light does a person (purusa) carry on his life. Yajnavalkya gives the obvious first answer: the sun. By daylight a person sits, moves around, does his work, and comes back home. Janaka agrees, but the questioning has only begun.
In the commentaries
Sankara takes this as the deliberate starting point: it names the most external light, so that by removing the outer lights one after another the inquiry can press inward toward a light that is not any object at all.